Improved revolving ice-pitcher and coffee-pot



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W-MHM In v en tor 4 www N. PETERS, PHOTO-LTHGGRAPHER WASHINGTON D C traont.

ldiniictl tapes' JOHN P. ADAMS, OF vNEWT YORK, ASSIGNORTO HIMSELF, HENRYS. CHNDLER, AND

- MARCUS ORMSBEE, OF'BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

Letters Patent No. 93,575, dated August 10, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

slop-bowl with a tilting and revolving ice-pitcher or similar vesseladapted to table-use, and also rto the novel arrangement of operativeparts, by means ot" which the revolving movement is Veffected with, asit is believed, the least practicable degree of friction; and l dohereby declare that the following specification, taken in connectionwith the drawings furnished, and

.forminga part of the same, is a true, clear, and exact descriptionthereof.

Having reference to the drawings- Figure l represents, in elevationview, one of my. improved vessels.

Figure 2 represents, in vertical section, that portion of the same whichcontains my improvements.

In each figure the corresponding parts arel lettered alike.

A represents the base.

B-represents the slop-bowl, resting upon the base, and connectedtherewith by means of a spindle, attached to the under side ofthe bowl.

'lhis spindle is nicely adjusted toa barrel-socket in the centre of thebase, and so arranged that friction results only from the bearingbetween the top of the barrel-socket and the under side ofthe bowl, andthe outer surface of the spindle and the inner surface o the socket. v

This bowl' is provided with a'concave top, suitably provided withporfin-ations for the passage of fluids to its interior; also withapeltures for the discharge of the same, so placed, beneath thestandards C, as to be entirely hidden froln view.

The perforated top may not be desired, in which case the interior wouldbe' entirely exposed. f

To more fully facilitate the pouring ot'- slo'ps into the bowl, it couldbe provided with a projecting lip in au obvious manner. "i

E represents the spindle, which may be iliade of hollow metal, or solid,as desired.

C and G represent standards, upon the tops of which the vessel orpitcher is placed, and balanced by means of trunnions attached to thesides of the pitcher.

D is'the pitcher, so balanced that of its own weight a lperpendicularposition is-of itself maintained. `It is provided with a stop to preventits tilting backward.

-The mode of operation of the several parts is clearly obvious.

`I am aware that al tilting and revolving vessel, substantially asdescribed, is not new; but I am not aware that the usefuland desirablecombination of a slopbowl therewith has ever before been effected.

I am also aware of the fact that the rev'olving'movement heretoforeeffected was by means of a horizontal' circular table, mounted upon aspindle, which, in turn, was mounted upon a step, and depending for itsvertical position upon the bearings of the periphery of the table upon asocket or rim, formed in the inside of the top of the base.

When thus constructed,`the friction of the parts isV at a distance fromthe axis.

To obviat'e this friction and reduce it as much as possible; is one ofthe objects of my present invention.

This is accomplished by having the bearing or weight 0f the bowl,standards, and pitcher concentrated at a point between the under side ofthe bowl and the base, at or near the top of the socket, which receivesthe spindle E.

All frictionresulting from the revolving movement is therefore confinedto the surfaces described, adjacent to the centre `of motion, and to thevertical surfaces between the spindle and its socket, securing at alltimes a free rota-ry movement.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters `Patent of the UnitedStates- 1. The combination of 'a slop-bowlwith a vessel arranged totilt, revolve, or bot-h, adapted to table-use, and arrzniged to operatesubstantially as herein shown and described.

2. The improvement in revolving vessels of thecharacterherein'desciibed, which consists in mounting the revolvingmember upon aspindle, so arranged, relatively t0 its socket, that friction onlyresults from the contact of the surfaces between the under side of suchmember and the upper side of the base, adjacent to the cent-re, andbetween the vertical sides of the spindle and the inner side of thesocket, `substantially as shown and described.

Witnesses:

SIMON H. STERN, HENRY H. licor.

JOHN l. ADAMS.

